I Think It's a Sad State for Our Society

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I think it would be pretty scary if they started showing photos of dead children and dead people everywhere where. You're not expecting it, were it just like, pops up on a screen somewhere. I mean, it just feels like we're just turning into a country that, you know, it's like the bad things get so promoted. But i think people need to love their country. They need to love each other.

John Temple was the editor of Rocky Mountain News in April 1999, when two students committed mass murder at Columbine High School. The photos he published that day would go on to win the Pulitzer Prize and enrage Daniel Rohrbough’s mom.

This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and edited and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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